I don't think that fakes (photoshop, deepfakes, whatever) need to be absolutely believable to be effective. The long-game purpose is to erode trust in instituti

I don't think that fakes (photoshop, deepfakes, whatever) need to be absolutely believable to be effective. The long-game purpose is to erode trust in institutions, media, politicians, etc. Fakes accomplish this goal by being just believable and just frequent enough that more and more people start deciding to believe whatever it is they want to believe because "who knows what the real truth is!".